Lars Arge, Professor in Computer Science at Aarhus University and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO), has been appointed new Secretary General of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters as of October 27th 2016.

Associate professor Jörg Müller has been funded for the research project ”Levitation with localised tactile and audio feedback for mid-air interactions” by the FET Open Program of the European Union.

Congratulations to "Beyond Ballmer's Peak feat. Freksen" who won the preliminary round of "DM in programming" this weekend. “DM i programmering” is an annual programming contest held at Department of Computer Science and sponsored by Netcompany. Congratulations to the winning team (who will compete in the Danish Finals aginst winners from Aalborg and Copenhagen), and thanks to the 26 teams spending a Saturday competing in mathematics, algorithms, and programming. See pictures from the competition on our facebook page.

Wednesday, Rector at Aarhus University Brian Bech Nielsen visited the Department of Computer Science to talk about the university’s development, visions and challenges.

Professor Ivan Damgaard has been awarded the honourable Order of the Dannebrog by HM Queen Margrethe II.

In the newly released Higher Education World University Rankings by the The Times, Aarhus University moves into the top 100 (as number 98) and becomes the best university in Denmark.

Eve Hoggan, 34, is employed as a new associate professor at Department of Computer Science. She will also take part in Center for Participatory IT (PIT).